Sending output to Zapier Webhook

Grasshopper ShapeDiver
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Hello ShapeDiver users!
Hello @mathieu1,

Rather than generating pdfs and sending complex emails in Shapediver, I was thinking of sending them to Zapier and then doing some magic to place them in Google Sheets, generating quotes with Google Docs, sending emails, etc.

How would you suggest I send a few data elements from a Shapediver model to a Zapier webhook? Options are form-encoded, JSON, and XML.

https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496083355661-How-to-get-started-with-Webhooks-by-Zapier

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You can use Direct Data Output components in Grasshopper to output data including JSON objects for example. You can then retrieve this data using the viewer API and send it to a Zapier webhook according to their documentation.

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Is it possible to output an image of your model (using the Make2D component) from the app builder version to a FTP site?

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You could implement such a workflow:

  • Use Make2D to create planar curves
  • Draw the curves as a Bitmap object using Squid
  • Send the created bitmap to the ShapeDiver Download Export component
  • In your app, use the viewer API to retrieve the exported bitmap and send to to your FTP site using Zapier or directly.